Excellent idea, Mark! I think the solution to your dilemma is rather straightforward: we introduce a Winter Standard Room Temperature (WSRT) and a Summer Standard Room Temperature (SSRT). This way, the folks from locales closer to the equator can always use SSRT, while those from more temperate climates can take advantage of using both WSRT and SSRT. The added benefit of this approach will be inclusion of researchers closer to either of the poles (which, forgive me for saying it, you so egregiously omitted from your considerations). Similar to the tropics, they could use just one standard - WSRT. Hope it helps your and so many young scientists' careers. Best wishes, Nukri
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 9:29 AM Mark <mjvanra...@cnb.csic.es> wrote: > Room temperature change from 25ºC to 20ºC > > As a member of the inter-society standards commission St-Incent I have > been asked to take the bearings of the structural biology community > regarding a proposal to lower the universally understood room temperature > from 25ºC (77º Fahrenheit) to 20ºC (68º Fahrenheit). Obvious advantages > would be less heating necessary for experiments at this standard > temperature. Given that laboratories nowadays are not commonly heated to > this high temperature anyway, it does appear to make sense. > > Members of tropical and subtropical countries have already expressed > opposition to the proposal, because they have to reach room temperature by > cooling rather than heating, so for them the proposal would mean more CO2 > emissions, not less. > > Please express opinions to this list today, so that I have time to collate > them before the local deadline of 28 December. > > > Mark J van Raaij > Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas, lab 20B > Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC > calle Darwin 3 > E-28049 Madrid, Spain > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
